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[aerofish.livejournal.com]

I read something earlier that made me think of LKH and how she's ended up where she has. It's an interesting quote all on it's own and, I think, a useful piece of advice to ponder for any writer - or artist in general - and makes me think this is *exactly* what has happened to LKH.

"In order to be creative, there has to be a distance from you and the thing itself. It is only when the distance gets confused that things go wrong. If you actually start to believe that you are what you write, then you have fucking had it. You have had it, and you ain't coming back. To assume that everything is about [one's own] life is to assume that that person is inherently stupid and isn't capable of absorbing anything else. The whole point of creativity is that you spend your whole life absorbing things almost to where it is unbearable. The way you deal with it is to get it out."

That's from Radiohead's Thom Yorke. I feel I have angered the Gods by including LKH and Yorke in the same post, because Lord knows that even at her very best LKH is/was no Thom Yorke(IMO); not even in neighboring universes actually.

It was from an interview where it was discussed how Thom's writings/lyrics were projected onto him so completely and as he states it, they "assume that everything is about [his] life". And about how, due to public opinions and success and media/journalists and sadly, sometimes people surrounding you, one can come to believe it themselves, become conditioned to be self-absorbed to a paralyzing point. After awhile, all you have to share with the world is this warped, regurgitated view of yourself. Which isn't creativity at all, it's masterbation.

Anyway... methinks this is what happened to LKH. Instead of growing and furthering her writing skills, she gave into the machinery surrounding her, and started to truly buy into the idea she is exactly what she writes.

That's all. Just a random (longish) ramble. :)

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[lovedstrangely.livejournal.com]

I know this community has quite a few writers. I was wondering if a few of you could help me out. We all know lkh uses *shudder* calendars and her own sex life as research, which is teh lame. I was wondering what you writers here use when writing about a place you've never been and are not familiar with? to give it a real authentic feeling, ya know?


any help appreciated!

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[lydaiya.livejournal.com]

O.K., a while back someone suggested a breakdown of the number of pages devoted to x, y, or z in LKH's books. In other words, how much of the book actually is made up of sex? I had been kind of wondering that myself, ( so I decided to give it a try. )

My math skills are, admittedly, not of the highest. I'm reasonably sure this is correct, but, by all means, feel free to correct me.